Stable uncertainty witnessed around the appointment of Valeriya Gontareva’s successor to the post of the National Bank’s Governor while an acting head remains at the helm has already become a bad tradition for Ukraine, said a Ukrainian political analyst and head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, Volodymyr Fesenko. “This is not the…
DetailsWages, pensions, state allowances and scholarships have been increased by 10% in Turkmenistan since January 1. The relevant decree of the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was signed last July. The decree provides for an increase of 10% starting from the New Year on salary received by employees of enterprises of self-financing institutions and organizations financed…
DetailsConsumer prices increased by an average 3.4% in 2017 compared to 2016. They were influenced the most by food products and non-alcoholic beverages, which made up two fifths of the increase, Statistics Estonia reported on January 8. The price of milk, dairy products, and eggs increased by 10.4% YoY, accounting for the single indicator that…
DetailsPassengers of the “unfortunate” G9-252 flight of Air Arabia finally jetted off from Astana and Almaty to Sharjah. The flight was initially scheduled to leave the airport in Astana at 04:55 a.m. on January 6 but was delayed for two days. On January 8 the passengers of the delayed flight headed to Sharjah via G9-252…
DetailsThe poverty rate in Ukraine decreased to 12% in 2017, according to the results of the study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. “And this is one of the few but important achievements of Ukraine over the years. In 2008, after the beginning of the world crisis, the poverty rate increased to 21%,…
DetailsKyiv’s Luch State Design Bureau has developed a brand new 107mm rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The grenade launcher will replace the Soviet-era RPO Rys rocket propelled flamethrower, withdrawn from use in 2014, as the shelf life of its reactive mixture had expired. The new sample of a heavy infantry weapon is designed to engage such targets…
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